| | |  | File Compression & Decompression | Home » » » » Stuffit Deluxe 2011 Hybrid Mac Os 10.5/Later/W7/Vista/Xp | | | | | | | Description: | | Compress, Secure and Send files on your Mac and PC | | | Features: | |
• 2011 version is now hybrid (Mac & PC)
• Compress & Expand all sorts of data
• Send files with SendStuffNow of any size and compressed or not
• Backup directly to FTP, MobileMe,CD's?
• Protect - Encrypt StuffIt & Zip files with strong 512-bit and AES 256-bit encryption.
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| 0.21 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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| Windows Vista / Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard / Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger / Windows 7 / Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
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17 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 Good utility, questionable interfaceNov 10, 2011
By Brent Butler
The pros:
Stuffit gives you the capability to read a lot of archive types with one utility, saving you from having to use separate software for RARs, for example. You can read Zip, Stuffit (sit and sitx), tar, rar, arj, lha, arc, 7z, comic book archives, and tz and its variants.
It will also read encoded files of bin, hqx, as, uu, uue, mm, mme, b64 and yenc.
Finally, it will read compressed single file formats bz2, gz, z, and lzma.
Unlike Windows' built in zip function, Stuffit doesn't just name the zip the same thing as the first file name encountered ... it names the archive file from the folder name containing the files.
The cons:
1. Of the archives it will read, it will not in return create rar, the earlier .sit from its own format, 7z, or comic book archives.
2. The reason for only three stars is this: The first task I set it to was archiving a folder with 4800 image files. When I started the compression from the right click menu, Stuffit simply disappeared, and nothing happened. When I explicitly opened Stuffit and added the folder, it did finish the task.
3. It has a major problem with archives containing a large number of files. Tonight I had it open a RAR with 300 files. When I attempted to drag and drop the files out of Stuffit, it just locked up. I had to kill it with Task Manager. Then I attempted to cut and paste the files from the Stuffit interface. Another trip to Task Manager followed. Finally I used its Extract feature, and that finally did it. However, I had to make sure to select all the files, it did not extract the entire archive by default.
Update to #3: I opened a zip file with 450 client images. I tried drag and drop again. Stuffit actually crashed Windows Explorer, which luckily restarted itself so that I didn't have to reboot my machine. I'm tempted to drop this to one star, as I may wind up having to uninstall it. I don't have these probelms with WINRAR or with Windows built in Zip functions.
To sum up, Stuffit will work correctly if you ONLY use its internal interface. If you try to use interactive actions between Stuffit and Windows 7 File Explorer windows ... it just doesn't work reliably.
However, I don't like it when a piece of software is assigned a task it claims it will perform, and just disappears with nothing done, especially with no status message indicating why it won't do it. I also don't like it when the software will not function correctly using every day Windows interface activities. I'm a software developer, so I completely understand that's just sloppy programming, and you're not going to get 4 or 5 stars from me when your product has sloppy programming.
13 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Stuffit HybridOct 06, 2011
By CCS HELLO
SKU: SDH2011BX2
UPC 717103902390
This product has a CD for 2010 version for Windows and another CD for 2011 version for OSX. They have their own, separate license keys. The booklet says: "Included in this package are installers for Stuffit Deluxe 2011 for Macintosh and Stuffit Deluxe 2010 for Windows, each with a 3-seat license, enabling you to install Stuffit Deluxe for either platform on up to three computers, virtual machines or any combination thereof."
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Got some bugs and slowMar 14, 2012
By Daniel Harkess
There are bugs in the software that comes in this package. That is when running it on a Mac. I don't know about running it on a PC (you get licenses for both).
Smith Micro makes it very clear that "contextual menus not available on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard". And "Note: In MAC OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Apple has removed support for third party contextual menu plug-ins. As a result, the Stuffit Contextual Menu is not available." This is bad news (for me at least).
Archiving and expanding are painfully slow. I just completed archiving a part of my images library to DVD and that took 2 hours, 58 minutes. This completed successfully.
Maybe I'm expecting too much, but the instruction booklet could be more instructive (at least the Mac part of it). It's 9.5 pages of a 4.75 X 7.0 booklet, albeit in a rather small font.
I'm disappointed with Smith Micro's Stuffit Deluxe. I say that reservedly as I have not used all of the options available with Stuffit Deluxe.
Update:
The version of Stuffit Deluxe I got in the mail is 15.0.1. There's an upgrade to 15.0.4. Use the upgrade (if you get 15.0.1). I think they fixed some bugs in the new version.
I shrunk my images library quite a bit. It's down to 3.54 GB. When I archived part of it (2.4 GB) the archive was 1.9 GB. That's a 21% disk savings.
As I've been updating this review, I have been trying to use the Archive Manager part of Stuffit Deluxe, but I've had to force quit it three times.
Good package with advanced functionsFeb 13, 2012
By MaxBurn
I think this is a good package for handling just about everything you could encounter for unzipping a variety of compressed packages.
On the creation side the software has a lot to offer too in the different things it can do but also has a lot of workflow automation built in. Say you want to zip something up and send it to an FTP or email, it has automation in place to do that.
Unfortunately the one thing I wanted is not there, create a segmented zip file so you can zip something up and split it to multiple media. The features will say it can do this but the software only allows it for the proprietary stix file format. While they do have a free uncompress utility this doesn't make the software interoperable with all the common zip utilities out there, and honestly it is a typical software lock in ploy. Not going to deal with split/cat either thanks.
Unfortunately this isn't nearly as powerful as WinRar, 7zip or Winzip on the windows platform but it is about the best you can find for Mac and has some nice workflow automation built in if you like that sort of thing.
This package does have a Mac and Windows license included which is very nice considering what they sell them for online as a download.
9 of 14 found the following review helpful:
love itMar 02, 2011
By Diana L. Six
"Mac-Addict"
working with graphics and having to send large files is a big part of my life.
have always relied on Stuffit, but this latest version is absolutely the best.
thanks
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